Florida teacher loses job for "wizardry"

[pokerfan]

Burn the witch!

http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=79533">Magic trick costs teacher job

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Oh, for heaven's sake!

[Sabriel]

2. The comments are fun to read.

Sounds like the general public is getting tired of that kind of action in Florida.

He should go work for *ush. Didn't the Chimperor say he didn't have a magic wand to wave?

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

3. A comment on the second page is priceless

From Florida Head Wizard:

Well, actually he IS one of our wizards, and was on special assignment to imprison the souls of children using an enchanted toothpick.

And he would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!

[nomorenomore08]

4. Yeah, you'd think he turned a student into a newt or something.

[KSinTX]

6. And there's this as well

Oh maybe he could summon that tacky wizard from the T-mobile ads! He knows the Elves, they are always chatting him up. They could invade pasco and take the backwater principal back to fantasy land.:)

Oh, by the way, let's not downplay the significant harm wizardry in the classroom can wreak. I and a dozen or so students were magically doused with the shards of a huge fluorescent light bulb after I stupidly hit it with a squirt gun (cold water).

[DontBlameMe]

29. She turned me into a newt!!!!!!

[jmowreader]

33. Quit complaining. You got better.

[TZ]

5. What is it with the Florida educational system?

Does all the sun fry the brain cells of those people.
Or do they all think its still the dark ages...Its truly scary that people like that are in charge of "edumacating" children..:dunce: :freak: :wtf:

[dembotoz]

7. this was MIDDLE School

not exactly impressionable first graders here.

The is just no excuse for this
but then again MCSAMEs advisor-what is that clowns name--Hagee? Hagrid?
believes harry potter is satanic....

What kind of response can you make is the face of such stupidity?

[pokerfan]

9. Ted Haggard

http://www.youtube.com/v/NFjeWd6QSTM&hl">Jimmy Kimmel talks about Ted Haggard

[LeftyMom]

16. What the fuck is the matter with that man's lips?

They always look like they're trying to escape the rest of his face. It's bizarre.

[Fox Mulder]

8. Jesus fucking Christ.

Every time I turn around there's always something stupid coming out of Florida.

[DarkTirade]

15. Hey, I had to leave...

:P

[sasquatch]

10. Reason 1001 of why you shouldn't live in Florida

[Tommy_Carcetti]

11. First the booze cruise teacher, and now the wizard teacher.

I love FLA!

[trof]

12. But they do have an opening for Alchemy Professor.

:rofl:

[Burma Jones]

13. Too bad he wasn't a Grand Imperial Wizard

[pokerfan]

14. Then he could run for office

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. That's right! That kind of wizard would be celebrated and feted.

[Rabrrrrrr]

18. And you all know the worst of it - it means some people actually believe wizards exists.

And that wizardry is a real thing.

That's what got me most about the Harry Potter stuff - it isn't just that people were offended by fake wizardry or pretend magic (which I could see, while not agreeing with, just as some are offended by fake violence in movies, for instance).

But it's that so many who are against Harry Potter because they actually think that magic is actually real. These also tend to be the people who think that either humans and dinosaurs existed together or that Satan put dinosaur bones in the ground to lead us away from God. So maybe it's not surprising that they think that magic actually exists.

They're clearly the most clueless, ignorant shitpiles every to walk the earth.

[crimsonblue]

19. I'm waiting for them to condemn Jesus next..

ya know.. for his magic tricks of turning water into wine and replicating fishes.

[crimsonblue]

20. here's how to get in touch with the school board member responsible...

[e-mail]

[Chan790]

25. Got a name and gender to go with that email?

I generally like to know who I am ass-reaming for stupidity. People tend not to like the salutation "It", as in:

Dear It M. Whaley:

I am writing concerning the termination of Jim Piculas, a substitute teacher at Rushe Middle School.

As a former education and literacy activist, I used to wonder why Florida's literacy scores on the US Dept. of Education's CASAS assessment of literacy achievement ranged from abysmal(1.2) to merely pathetic(2.6) on a 5-point scale. I now understand completely if this is really what you feel is the foremost issue that the Pasco Co. School District has to deal with. Your school district puts up some of the worst scores in the entire state of Florida, a state which scored 43rd of 50 states in literacy achievement. Really? Wizardry is a more serious threat to the future of Pasco's children than the fact that they can't read well enough to score better on a literacy assessment than they would have if they simply guessed, can't score better than the average immigrant from the non-English speaking world? I can hear you now: "Pasco fail English? That's unpossible."

This is why I'll never send my children to Pasco County's public schools, they're run by people like you.

Sincerely yours,

J. Channing XXXXXX

[crimsonblue]

30. Marge Whaley-- school board member

and Wizard oppressor since 2008.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

21. Hey, this stuff makes us Texans look good!!

:D

[BarenakedLady]

22. Oh boy.

Morans.

:eyes:

[DarkTirade]

23. No big surprise that this is from the area whose initials are LOL.

... and I thought I'd been gone from the warehouse I worked at long enough to start forgetting stuff like the name of EVERY TOWN IN FLORIDA and which conveyor belt the packages we sent there go on... but I haven't. The minute I saw 'Land 'O Lakes', I immediately thought, "Goes on the white conveyor belt."

Damn it. :P

[Kitty Herder]

24. WTF? When I was in elementary school,

we had an entire school assembly to see some guy perform "magic tricks." I'm not sure what the educational value of that was, but it was fun and nobody got their panties in a wad over it. We had all kinds of entertaining assemblies of dubious educational value.

[Rabrrrrrr]

26. You were in school before the Moral Majority flooded the school boards with their own people.

Under the direction Jerry Falwell and Dobson and others, who were under the direction of Tim LeHaye and Reagan.

[Kitty Herder]

27. The school board I went to school under was flooded with Mormon types,

who, although extremely uptight in some ways (like measuring our shorts to make sure they were long enough), never cared about a little sleight of hand. Although one of my more eccentric Jr. High teachers got in a small amount of trouble for demonstrating hypnosis on his students, but he didn't get suspended or anything. He was just politely asked to stop. And he did. To be honest, I agree that he shouldn't have done it without permission from parents. But it was educational. Especially to those like me who volunteered to be subjects. (My parents didn't care. Dad was totally into therapeutic hypnosis.) We learned about the real phenomenon of hypnosis as opposed to stage hypnosis, which I think is usually faked.

But, yes, I did go to elementary school in the eighties before this kind of bullshit from the Moral Majority types got completely out of control.

(Edited twice for grammar. You'd think I went to some podunk school in rural Utah or somethin'.)

[jellen]

28. Sheesh!

What next?

[MilesColtrane]

31. There are some who call him... 'Jim'?

[Critters2]

32. Why do all the crazies end up in Florida? nt